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Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> My cousin in England wants to try out Linux & has an Ubuntu Live CD. |
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> To help her, I've installed the same on a separate partition in my box. |
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> The partition is /dev/sda8 & is formatted ReiserFS. |
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> I use Lilo as boot manager & don't want to change to Grub |
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> just to offer temporary help to someone, |
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> so I refused to let the Ubuntu installer overwrite my MBR, |
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> hoping to get Lilo to see Ubuntu via an appropriate 'lilo.conf'. |
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> I've managed to get Lilo to add Ubuntu to the boot menu, |
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> but only by mounting /dev/sda8 as /z/mount8 & using the line |
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> image = /z/mount8/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic |
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> However, when I reboot & select that image via its label, |
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> I'm getting the hoary old 'VFS: can't open root device "808"'. |
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> I've tried adding a dir /z/mount8 in the Ubuntu partition |
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> with a symlink of 'boot' to '../../boot' there, but it doesn't help. |
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> This does look rather messy, but I just want to be able to boot Ubuntu |
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> in order to advise my cousin when she starts using her version. |
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> Is anyone successfully dual-booting Linux distros using Lilo ? |
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> Might it be ReiserFS ? -- should I re-install Ubuntu with another FS ? |
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What I do in those cases is to copy the kernel and the initrd of the |
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Ubuntu system into your normal boot directory and just have a root= |
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directive in the append stanza and that works just fine. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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